Iran’s acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri said Monday his government was engaged in negotiations with arch-foe the United States hosted by the Gulf sultanate of Oman. Asked about the issue at a news conference during a visit to Beirut, Bagheri said “we have always continued out negotiations… and they have never stopped.” Washington and Tehran […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s acting foreign minister arrived in Lebanon Monday, his first official diplomatic visit since his predecessor died in a helicopter crash last month. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Ali Bagheri Kani would visit Lebanon and then Syria “to meet with the two countries’ officials as well as the officials of […]
(Bloomberg) — Poland has decided to curb movement of Russian diplomats living on its territories amid rising concern over alleged sabotage operations. Most Read from Bloomberg The decision stems from “the participation of the Russian state in the hybrid war against the European Union, including Poland,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters in Brussels on […]
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, reiterated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas, following a meeting with the Palestinian Authority’s new prime minister in Brussels on Sunday. “We must do everything in our power to reach an immediate end of the hostilities, to achieve […]
The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, reiterated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas, following a meeting with the Palestinian Authority’s new prime minister in Brussels on Sunday. “We must do everything in our power to reach an immediate end of the hostilities, to achieve the […]
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators angry at the German government’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza disrupted a citizens’ forum featuring Germany’s foreign minister on Sunday. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was participating in a discussion titled “Stormy times – how foreign policy ensures the security of our democracy” as part of weekend of events to celebrate the adoption […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Kiev on Tuesday morning and made a plea for more international support to protect the country’s skies from Russian airstrikes. “To protect Ukraine from the hail of Russian missiles and drones, it urgently needs more air defence,” she said at the start of her seventh visit to Ukraine […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the U.S. over the country’s nuclear program, died in the helicopter crash that also killed the country’s president, state media reported Monday. He was 60. […]
STORY: ::A senior U.S. diplomat warns Georgia its ‘foreign agents’ law could put aid from Washington at risk :: James O’Brien / U.S. Assistant Secretary of State “If the law goes forward without conforming to EU norms and this kind of rhetoric aspersions against the U.S and other partners continue, I think the relationship is […]
Afghanistan’s only female diplomat has resigned days after she was caught by airport authorities allegedly smuggling nearly £1.6 million of gold into India. Zakia Wardak announced her resignation on social media after Indian media reported that she and her son had been stopped last month on arrival in Mumbai from Dubai carrying 25kg of gold. […]
Germany has summoned the acting chargé d’affaires of the Russian embassy in response to a Russian cyberattack on the governing centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) last year. Chargé d’affaires Alexei Korlyakov had been summoned for around midday, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry announced in Berlin on Friday. “[It is a clear diplomatic signal] […]
BEIRUT (AP) — French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné arrived in Lebanon Sunday as part of diplomatic attempts to broker a deescalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. Séjourné was set to meet with United Nations peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon and with Lebanon’s parliament speaker, army chief, foreign minister and caretaker prime minister. The […]